Image Handler 2 (for ZC v1.3.8 ONLY) Support

[Wallachian]

Hello, I have an issue with IH2. I'm using ZC 1.3.9g and i installed IH2, last version. I have some other addons installed (zen lightbox, email archive manager, blank sideboxes, a forum, admin notes advanced, admin profiles, live chat, login box and other stuff). This is the only one who made me sweat a lot.

Everything worked smooth but all the gifs are looking very bad. The dinamic gifs are static, dont move and have a badly glow surrounding them. The other gifs dont have transparent background despite my (various test) settings (255,255,255).

Here is a link to an example - http://diablomall.com/index.php?main...dex&cPath=1_43 - but i deactivated IH2 simply setting "IH resize images" to NO because was looking so bad and I didn't like it even for few hours to stay there. If someone could help me I can reactivate IH2 for showing.

All I want is to be displayed a description on hover, simply put the mouse - not click- on picture and another picture (with/or description) to be displayed on listing products pages. No bigger pictures, no other stuff, just the description.
I don't want to give up IH2 but if there's another addon which can bring description (even in picture, I can handle) and not to crash the pictures then I'll choose that.

Those are my settings:

Small Image Width 100
Small Image Height 80
Heading Image Width - Admin 57
Heading Image Height - Admin 40
Subcategory Image Width 100
Subcategory Image Height 57
Calculate Image Size true
Image Required true
Image - Shopping Cart Status 1
Image - Shopping Cart Width 50
Image - Shopping Cart Height 40
Category Icon Image Width - Product Info Pages 57
Category Icon Image Height - Product Info Pages 40
Top Subcategory Image Width 150
Top Subcategory Image Height 85
Product Info - Image Width 150
Product Info - Image Height 120
Product Info - Image Medium Suffix _MED
Product Info - Image Large Suffix _LRG
Product Info - Number of Additional Images per Row 3
Image - Product Listing Width 100
Image - Product Listing Height 80
Image - Product New Listing Width 100
Image - Product New Listing Height 80
Image - New Products Width 100
Image - New Products Height 80
Image - Featured Products Width 100
Image - Featured Products Height 80
Image - Product All Listing Width 100
Image - Product All Listing Height 80
Product Image - No Image Status 1
Product Image - No Image picture no_picture.gif
Image - Use Proportional Images on Products and Categories 1
IH resize images no
IH small image filetype no_change
IH small image background 255:255:255
IH watermark small images no
IH zoom small images yes
IH small image compression quality 100
IH medium image filetype no_change
IH medium image background 255:255:255
IH watermark medium images no Info
IH medium image compression quality 85
IH large image filetype no_change
IH large image background 255:255:255
IH watermark large images no Info
IH large image compression quality 85
IH large image maximum width 750
IH large image maximum height 550
IH watermark gravity Center

Thank you

[dbltoe]

The mods are probably not your problem. Nor is IH2.

My vote would go for the Template Monster template doing something to a file that is not normally messed with by Zen or any Mod.

Check your TM template to see if any of the files are common to any of the IH2 files. If so, you will need to VERY carefully merge them to make IH2 work.

Or you could contact TM and see what help you get for your money spent

On a 12mb connection, your site took 27 seconds to load and the first page has double anchors, open img elements, and empty p tags. Gotta love that TM -- NOT

[finlander]

Hello, I have an issue with IH2.

I have had to always install (re-install) lightbox over the top of IH whenever I had to re-install or upgrade IH (mainly because lightbox needs to overwrite one of the Additional Images files.

There could be other mods that also need need similar treatment after IH is installed.

[Wallachian]

Thank you for response and check. I had an argue with my host who said they put the site on best servers they have. Still, that delay on site navigation has some specific hours to appear which seems strange to me their response that is my fault (template or settings). And has nothing to do with high traffic. Maybe i'll be enough courageous to make a full back up and ask them to reinstall ZC.

The template was free but i made some modifications in it's layout, nothing important, just changing colors, dimensions, logos, pictures etc.

I changed settings from their standard 100 with 80 to 150 with 120 which keep it the proportions but made bigger pictures. This made some (almost all) gifs background become transparent, i guess my pictures are too small. With even bigger settings, around 300 per 200 dinamic gifs starts looking good and moving. Of course, i cannot keep those huge settings, but this can say something to experts of what is wrong there.

I'll start verify if there are common files and compare them if so.

[DivaVocals]

I have had to always install (re-install) lightbox over the top of IH whenever I had to re-install or upgrade IH (mainly because lightbox needs to overwrite one of the Additional Images files.

There could be other mods that also need need similar treatment after IH is installed.

This is an incorrect approach.. You should NOT be overwriting these files at all.. Instead using a file merging program (like Winmerge or Beyond Compare) you need to merge BOTH the required lightbox code along with the required IH2 code for any files they share in common.. Otherwise you WILL replace required IH2 code when installing your lightbox and vice versa..

Maybe one day when I have time (and that ain't today) I will post the correct code needed for lightbox/IH2 integration since this seems to be the one mistake made most often by shopowners when trying to install Zen Lightbox or Fual Slimbox with IH2..

[DivaVocals]

The mods are probably not your problem. Nor is IH2.

My vote would go for the Template Monster template doing something to a file that is not normally messed with by Zen or any Mod.

Check your TM template to see if any of the files are common to any of the IH2 files. If so, you will need to VERY carefully merge them to make IH2 work.

Or you could contact TM and see what help you get for your money spent

On a 12mb connection, your site took 27 seconds to load and the first page has double anchors, open img elements, and empty p tags. Gotta love that TM -- NOT

This was my thought as well.. This is why I've never been a fan of TM.. Their motto seems to be "style over substance", and that's NOT a good thing..

Most of their template code is so badly hacked that it creates NOTHING but issues with other mods..

[dbltoe]

My bad... I missed the lightbox. I always prefer Fual Slimbox with IH2.

However, I still vote for TM as the culprit.

[finlander]

This is an incorrect approach.. You should NOT be overwriting these files at all.. Instead using a file merging program (like Winmerge or Beyond Compare) you need to merge BOTH the required lightbox code along with the required IH2 code for any files they share in common.. Otherwise you WILL replace required IH2 code when installing your lightbox and vice versa..

A pure merge (all data from both the IH and the LB additional_images.php files, merged/incorporated into one file) would cause problems. That's why the LB box code uses the 'handle_image' IF statements to defer to the IH code where needed. There would be inconsistencies in the resulting code if it were a pure merge, with the IH code saying to do one thing and the LB code saying to do something else, in the same spot.

The LB overwrite of the IH additional_images.php file seems to work perfect on my install.

[DivaVocals]

A pure merge (all data from both the IH and the LB additional_images.php files, merged/incorporated into one file) would cause problems. That's why the LB box code uses the 'handle_image' IF statements to defer to the IH code where needed. There would be inconsistencies in the resulting code if it were a pure merge, with the IH code saying to do one thing and the LB code saying to do something else, in the same spot.

The LB overwrite of the IH additional_images.php file seems to work perfect on my install.

But it's not a pure merge.. Not even for Fual Slimbox.. There are simply parts of the code that need to be modified for the lightbox, and parts which needs to be merged for IH2.. I'm glad it's working for you, but from what I remember, your suggested approach is the most common reason why most folks have trouble getting both to work together.. Perhaps the writers of Zen Lightbox have already incorporated IH2 code, but the last time I looked they had not and it still required a file merge of some sort to get both to work together..

One of these days when I get some time I'm gonna update the IH2 fileset to include the properly modified files needed for both Fual Slimbox and Zen Lightbox.. This should effectively out an end to the issues and questions surrounding how to merge IH2 with these two popular lightbox contribs..

[DivaVocals]

My bad... I missed the lightbox. I always prefer Fual Slimbox with IH2.

However, I still vote for TM as the culprit.

** nods in agreement with all of this **